Learning to Fly Quotes

“Whatever might happen in life, whether I liked it or didn’t like it, I could know one thing for sure: it would change. There was absolute certainty in uncertainty, in some ways an enormous comfort.”
― Steph Davis, Learning to Fly: An Uncommon Memoir of Human Flight, Unexpected Love, and One Amazing Dog

“As a free solo climber, when trying extremely difficult or dangerous movements on rock for the first time, I try it first with the safety of a rope.”
― Steph Davis, Learning to Fly: An Uncommon Memoir of Human Flight, Unexpected Love, and One Amazing Dog

“I liked that they didn’t ask me about anything other than here and now, because here and now was working for me. I liked the intense, fun-loving energy around me, the feeling of being part of a group. Even more, I liked being a stranger to the new friends I was making in this new world.”
― Steph Davis, Learning to Fly: An Uncommon Memoir of Human Flight, Unexpected Love, and One Amazing Dog

“I just wanted to fly, for that one weightless minute of time streaking through the sky. It felt like nothing I’d ever experienced.”
― Steph Davis, Learning to Fly: An Uncommon Memoir of Human Flight, Unexpected Love, and One Amazing Dog

“Falling out of a plane was a potentially life-threatening situation where I was an incompetent passenger with no chance of saving myself if I had to. Those were the elements of my ultimate nightmare, and in retrospect I realized I could never have liked it.”
― Steph Davis, Learning to Fly: An Uncommon Memoir of Human Flight, Unexpected Love, and One Amazing Dog

“Virgil cheered me up with his usual gentle logic, helping me get some perspective larger than the pencil point of reality my focus had narrowed into.”
― Steph Davis, Learning to Fly: An Uncommon Memoir of Human Flight, Unexpected Love, and One Amazing Dog